Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad